New Delhi
26 July 2010
The WikiLeaks expose of links between Pakistan's official agencies and outfits
such as the Taliban validates India's oft-repeated assertion that the terrorist-
establishment nexus is getting stronger and that the epicentre of terrorism lies in India's
neighbourhood.
The revelations by themselves are not new but according to strategic analyst B Raman,
they raise a crucial question: How long will the US cover up the misdeeds of Pakistan
against India in order to protect American lives and interests?
In a signed piece Mr Raman wrote for a website, he said the leaked documents
confirmed three facts which were already known -- the role of Pakistan in training and
arming the Taliban; the role of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Taliban
in organising a car bomb explosion through a suicide bomber outside the Indian
embassy in Kabul on July 7, 2008; and the attempts by the ISI to use the Taliban to have
the Hamid Karzai government in Afghanistan destabilised.
He posed another question, this time to New Delhi: How long will India keep silent on the
US cover-up of Pakistani misdeeds in the long-term interests of the developing strategic
relations between India and the US?
The US has said the leaks will not impact its ongoing commitment to deepen its
partnerships with Afghanistan and Pakistan.
New Delhi has not reacted so far to the WikiLeaks expose, but only last week national
security adviser Shivshankar Menon had alluded to Pakistan's complicity saying that the
terrorist groups' links to "the official establishment and with existing intelligence
agencies" made it a much harder phenomenon for India to deal with.
"Unfortunately what we know, what we've seen is that these links, this nexus will not in
fact be broken soon, if anything it's getting stronger," Mr Menon had said.
The leaks also come after home secretary GK Pillai accused the ISI of controlling and
coordinating the Mumbai attacks from the beginning till the end. Pillai said his remarks
were founded on the new information that was gleaned from the interrogation of David
Coleman Headley, an American of Pakistani descent who has confessed to scouting
targets for the Mumbai attacks.
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